One Country, Two Systems in Crisis
Subtitle: Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780739104927
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; World history: from c 1900 -; Hong Kong (China); History; History - General History; Transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997; History: World; China; Europe; Modern - 20th Century; Asia - China; History / China; Europe - General; 1997-; Politics and government; Transfer of sovereignty from G
Description: "In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reins to the People's Republic of China (PRC) - but did so with the presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle of "one country, two systems" for the following fifty years. Yet since the handover in 1997, the PRC has failed to allow Hong Kong a higher degree of autonomy. "One Country, Two Systems" in China elucidates how China's intervention has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the "Pearl of the Orient" into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party."--BOOK JACKET.